PaPM Platform Lead, Global Finance Solutions

Mars; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mars University

Industry competitive compensation &amp

Job summary

Mars is seeking a PaPM Platform & Process Lead to drive design, deployment, governance, and continuous improvement of SAP PaPM solutions for global finance and operations. You will partner with Finance, Technology, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable profitability management, allocations, and reporting.

The role requires deep finance knowledge, SAP PaPM experience, and strong analytical and communication skills to guide enterprise-wide improvements and ensure solution quality and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 6+ years finance, accounting, financial systems, or analytics experience.
• Minimum 3+ years SAP PaPM, financial systems, consulting, developer, or solution delivery experience.
• Strong communication, collaboration, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Proven experience designing and supporting allocation methodologies, profitability management processes, and financial data models.
• Proficiency in data analytics tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI or similar) and SAP HANA/SQL concepts.
• Experience with SAP architecture, enterprise integrations, testing, transport management, release governance, and change management processes (preferred).
• SAP certification in Profitability and Performance Management or related SAP solutions (preferred).
• Strong functional finance knowledge and understanding of profitability management processes, including cost allocations, transfer pricing, profitability reporting, and performance management.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and supporting SAP PaPM solutions, financial data models, business rules, and allocation methodologies.
• Knowledge of SAP architecture, enterprise data structures, integration concepts, and related SAP platforms (e.g., SAP Central Finance, S/4HANA, MDG, BW) preferred.
• Experience evaluating business requirements, performing impact assessments, and translating complex business needs into scalable process and technology solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience performing root cause analysis, identifying risks and dependencies, and driving sustainable process improvements.
• Experience working across cross-functional teams, external partners, and global organizations while effectively communicating and influencing stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, manage ambiguity, and support testing, transport management, release governance, and change management activities.

Responsibilities

• Solution Design & Deployment: Partner with Finance, Technology, and business stakeholders to define, design, and deploy scalable PaPM solutions supporting profitability management, cost allocations, transfer pricing, intercompany cross-charging, and performance reporting requirements.
• Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify data gaps, process inefficiencies, allocation anomalies, and control weaknesses through analysis and stakeholder engagement.
• Platform Governance & Change Management: Lead governance and change management activities related to PaPM models, transports, testing, documentation, and release management.
• Enterprise Change Impact Assessment: Assess the impact of organizational, process, master data, ERP, and reporting changes on existing PaPM solutions.
• Data Modeling, Analytics & System Integration: Analyze large and complex financial and operational datasets to support solution design, scenario modeling, regression testing, and performance optimization.
• Operational Support & Platform Reliability: Provide functional and technical leadership during period-end activities by monitoring process execution, troubleshooting production issues, validating results, and ensuring timely and accurate delivery of profitability and allocation outputs.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Capability Building: Build partnerships with Finance, Technology, and business teams by facilitating workshops, guiding PaPM capabilities, supporting training, documenting best practices, mentoring team members.

Skills

SAP PaPM

Finance knowledge

Data analytics

Communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Presentation skills

Cross-functional work

Analytics tools

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Alteryx

Tableau

Power BI

SQL

SAP HANA

Job description

Mars is seeking a PaPM Platform & Process Lead to drive design, deployment, governance, and continuous improvement of SAP PaPM solutions for global finance and operations. You will partner with Finance, Technology, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable profitability management, allocations, and reporting.

The role requires deep finance knowledge, SAP PaPM experience, and strong analytical and communication skills to guide enterprise-wide improvements and ensure solution quality and